The Meaning of Life? Care.
--- “Cura (Care) was crossing a river and saw some clay. Thoughtfully, she took it up and began to shape it. Jupiter came along, and she asked him to give it spirit, which he granted. Then they...
Tag: Transcendence
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Heidegger's Being and Time, A Primer
It is hard to overstate the importance of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. It turned the world of philosophy upside down and inaugurated existentialist phenomenology, existentialism, philosophical...
Sartre’s Voyeuristic Reimagining of Hegel’s Master/Slave Dialectic
What follows is an exegetical account of Jean Paul Sartre’s section “The Look” from Being and Nothingness. In this section, Sartre explains how our encounter with the Other challenges our own sense...
Authenticity and The Ex-stasis of Transcendence
FOLLOW TO PREVIOUS PART ONE: --- In this second part, Sartre defends Existentialism against common critiques that it is politically ineffective, pessimistic, and too individualistic or solipsistic....